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en-usMedical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.In university basement, bats and owls offer clues into brain functionWhat can we learn about attention by studying bats and owls? In one corner of the basement of Ames Hall at the Johns Hopkins University, Cynthia Moss opened the door of a room where about a dozen Egyptian fruit bats dozed inside a milk crate attached to the wall.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-university-basement-owls-clues-brain.html
NeuroscienceSat, 21 Feb 2015 10:40:01 EDTnews343735660Hollow tree was Ebola's Ground Zero, scientists sayInsect-eating bats that inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village in Guinea may have been the source of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic, scientists said on Tuesday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-source-ebola-epidemic-west-africa.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 30 Dec 2014 06:00:04 EDTnews339086051Bats may hold henipavirus threat for West AfricaA family of lethal viruses that has leapt from bats to humans in Australia and Asia may also pose a threat in West Africa, where bats are butchered for meat, scientists reported Tuesday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-henipavirus-threat-west-africa.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 18 Nov 2014 11:16:39 EDTnews335531787Ebola: Simple methods of protectionPreventing infection by the Ebola virus entails simple but rigorously-observed methods of barrier protection and monitoring for signs of ill-health, say experts.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-ebola-simple-methods.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 07 Oct 2014 06:40:01 EDTnews331881677Mapping could help stop Ebola's spreadIn the fight against Ebola, mapping fruit bat habitats could be one important step, says a geoinformatics researcher at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-ebola.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 11 Sep 2014 07:40:01 EDTnews329638261Risk of Ebola emergence mappedA new map identifies areas where animals are likely to be infected with the Ebola virus as a first step towards understanding where future outbreaks of the disease may occur.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-ebola-emergence.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 09 Sep 2014 07:30:01 EDTnews329465946What drives EbolaAs the deadly disease attacks West Africa, a Tufts expert in the virus explains its origins and ecology and the best ways to fight its spread.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-ebola.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 12 Aug 2014 08:10:01 EDTnews327047635Experts cast worried eye on Ebola spreadVirologists say they are deeply worried by the unprecedented Ebola epidemic in West Africa which has claimed more than 90 lives and may now also have struck north into the Sahel.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-experts-eye-ebola.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 04 Apr 2014 08:42:36 EDTnews315819741Scientists find burglary-ring-like mechanism in lethal 'Contagion' virusA team of scientists from Washington State University has discovered how one of the planet's most deadly known viruses employs burglary-ring-like teamwork to infiltrate the human cell.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-scientists-burglary-ring-like-mechanism-lethal-contagion.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesMon, 16 Dec 2013 15:32:05 EDTnews306430291Intense human settlement and forest disruption linked to virus outbreak(Medical Xpress)—A new study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine shows that the deadly Nipah virus in Bangladesh is infecting people only in areas with significant deforestation and high population density. Although the virus is spread by a common fruit bat, villages with fairly intact forest did not get Nipah virus infections.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-intense-human-settlement-forest-disruption.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 03 Dec 2013 06:18:38 EDTnews305273902Hippo pathway to better cancer treatment?Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential new pathway to treat cancer by asking some odd questions about the size of animals.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-hippo-pathway-cancer-treatment.html
CancerThu, 11 Jul 2013 13:03:06 EDTnews292766574Biogeographic barrier that protects Australia from avian flu does not stop Nipah virusAn invisible barrier separates land animals in Australia from those in south-east Asia may also restrict the spillover of animal-borne diseases like avian flu, but researchers have found that fruit bats on either side of this line can carry Nipah virus, a pathogen that causes severe human disease. The findings are published April 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Breed from the University of Queensland, Australia and colleagues from other institutions.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-biogeographic-barrier-australia-avian-flu.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesWed, 24 Apr 2013 17:00:07 EDTnews286037828Recent study suggests bats are reservoir for ebola virus in BangladeshEcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, released new research on Ebola virus in fruit bats in the peer reviewed journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, a monthly publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study found Ebola virus antibodies circulating in ~4% of the 276 bats scientists screened in Bangladesh. These results suggest that Rousettus fruit bats are a reservoir for Ebola, or a new Ebola-like virus in South Asia. The study extends the range of this lethal disease further than previously suspected to now include mainland Asia. "Research on Filoviruses in Asia is a new frontier of critical importance to human health, and this study has been vital to better understand the wildlife reservoirs and potential transmission routes for Ebola virus in Bangladesh and the region," said Dr. Kevin Olival, lead author and Senior Research Scientist at EcoHealth Alliance.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-reservoir-ebola-virus-bangladesh.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesWed, 16 Jan 2013 16:16:11 EDTnews277575305Canada lab probes pig link to Ebola virusCould pigs be an unexpected source for transmitting the deadly Ebola virus?http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-canada-lab-probes-pig-link.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 15 Nov 2012 11:10:01 EDTnews272198526Killer Australian virus outbreak claims ninth horseA horse was put down in Australia after contracting the deadly Hendra virus -- the ninth animal to die in an outbreak which has exposed almost 50 people in two states.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-killer-australian-virus-outbreak-ninth.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 14 Jul 2011 05:33:41 EDTnews229840407Horse virus hits Australia's tourist northThe biggest ever outbreak of Australia's deadly Hendra virus has spread to near the tourist city of Cairns, claiming the life of an eighth horse, officials said Tuesday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-horse-virus-australia-tourist-north.html
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